The Mike Lützeler Contemporary German Literature Collection
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- 23 Feb 2023
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Visitors to John M. Olin library wandering the stacks of Level A, where most of our circulating collection of world literature is held, may be surprised to find a seemingly endless row of German-language literature, including poetry, fiction, essays, and literary magazines, much of it written in the last forty years.
The collection results from the vision of Professor Emeritus Mike Lützeler, a world-renowned specialist in modern and contemporary German literature. In the 1980s, he realized that relatively few North American libraries were collecting literature from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with potentially dire consequences for the study of contemporary German literature here. In 1984, he founded the Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature, which he directed until his retirement in 2022. For decades under his keen leadership, it has funded an impressive writer-in-residence and critic-in-residence program. But perhaps Lützeler’s most unique and astounding achievement under the auspices of the center is the contemporary German literature collection. Read More…
